Yes! Big Trouble In Little China!

[GaijinPunch]

No
I know it's from June but I just now heard...

[options]

you want them to do a remake?

[1up]

I can't see The Rock as Jack Burton. I love Dwayne Johnson and he can be funny but not in the same way as Kurt Russell pulled it off.

[Skykid]

Someone deserves to die for greenlighting this.

[GaijinPunch]

No
I know it's from June but I just now heard...

guess you didn't pick up on the subtle YES! -> No transition.

[Stevens]

SWEET FUCKING CHRIST JUST STOP ALREADY.

Lemme guess - Michael Bay directing?

[options]

this seems an odd choice for a cash-grabbin' remake. was the original even successful in its initial run?

[GaijinPunch]

this seems an odd choice for a cash-grabbin' remake. was the original even successful in its initial run?

Not only was it not, it was John Carpenter's catalyst to move away from Hollywood studios.

Opening in 1,053 theaters on July 2, 1986, Big Trouble in Little China grossed $2.7 million in its opening weekend and went on to gross $11.1 million in North America, well below its estimated budget of $25 million

After the commercial and critical failure of the film, Carpenter became very disillusioned with Hollywood and became an independent filmmaker.[25] He said in an interview, "The experience [of Big Trouble] was the reason I stopped making movies for the Hollywood studios. I won’t work for them again. I think Big Trouble is a wonderful film, and I’m very proud of it. But the reception it received, and the reasons for that reception, were too much for me to deal with. I’m too old for that sort of bullshit."

source

[GaijinPunch]

But here's a refreshing snip also from wikipedia. Well, refreshing end to a shitty snip.

After the commercial and critical failure of the film, Carpenter became very disillusioned with Hollywood and became an independent filmmaker.[25] He said in an interview, "The experience [of Big Trouble] was the reason I stopped making movies for the Hollywood studios. I won’t work for them again. I think Big Trouble is a wonderful film, and I’m very proud of it. But the reception it received, and the reasons for that reception, were too much for me to deal with. I’m too old for that sort of bullshit."

[options]

Not only was it not, it was John Carpenter's catalyst to move away from Hollywood studies.

well, then...

[mirkvid]

Look, I'm a reasonable man, but this remake is a very unreasonable thing.



I like Dwayne The Rock Johnson tho.

[blackoak]

Cool quote from Carpenter, I didn't know about that. I actually watched Big Trouble last week, for the first time in awhile. I always loved it but think I appreciated it even more this time around. John Carpenter at his best represents a level of "kitsch"--if you can call it that--that I actually like... probably because it's wedded to other really good aesthetic, narrative, and directorial technique. I honestly can't think of anyone making comic book-y movies in this freewheeling style anymore.

My Dad loved this movie also, and in his mind I think he saw himself as a mix of Jack Burton and Buckaroo Banzai (he was a chemical engineer, but had a heavy math/physics background). He would quote those movies constantly.

Even more than usual a remake is a guaranteed disaster, will avoid like the plague.

[BrianC]

The topic title is what I thought when it turned up as one of my free ultraviolet movies. Now I need to watch it.

[GaijinPunch]

The topic title is what I thought when it turned up as one of my free ultraviolet movies. Now I need to watch it.

have you not seen it before?

[Axelay]

Big trouble in little China is an excellent film.
Didn't the golden child have something to do with it's failure ?

If John carpenter made a lost planet film I would give him all my monies

[BrianC]

The topic title is what I thought when it turned up as one of my free ultraviolet movies. Now I need to watch it.

have you not seen it before?

No. I haven't seen it yet. I plan to see it, though.

[GaijinPunch]

No. I haven't seen it yet. I plan to see it, though.

Truly shocked...